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Section 6 <br />Implementation and Recommendations for Colorado's Water Supply Future <br />Fundamentally, the Board is committed to <br />~ Sound technical and scientific decisionmaking. <br />~ Ensuring that all water supply solutions are <br />considered and evaluated. <br />~ Exploring new and creative ways to meet our <br />consumptive and nonconsumptive (environmental <br />and recreational) needs. <br />Members should focus on how they are collectively <br />accomplishing the mission and not just the individual <br />activities they are undertaking that contribute to <br />accomplishment of the mission. This is absolutely <br />essential -not only for the 80 percent municipal and <br />industrial (M~eI) supply to be realized, but also if the <br />20 percent water supply gap is to be filled and <br />agricultural, environmental, and recreational needs <br />satisfied. <br />~ Ensuring our ability to fully utilize our compact <br />entitlements. <br />~ Conserving the waters of the state for wise and <br />efficient beneficial uses. <br />To achieve these goals the Board will continue to <br />implement Colorado's Water Supply Future and <br />support the Basin Roundtable and Interbasin <br />Compact process. The Board will explore new <br />potential program directions and will sustain its <br />commitment to key program elements. <br />CWCB's major programs include: <br />~ Interstate Water Planning and Development <br />~ Water Information <br />~ Conservation and Drought Planning <br />~ Water Supply Protection <br />~ Instream Flow and Natural Lake Level Protection <br />~ Flood Protection <br />~ Water Supply Planning and Finance <br />Activities that can be undertaken by the Board and <br />each section toward implementing the findings and <br />recommendations of SWSI are presented below. <br />It is important to note that in discussing Board tasks, <br />one is speaking not just of basin representatives, but <br />also the CWCB Director, the DNR Executive <br />Director, and other ex-officio members representing <br />the Department of Agriculture, the Colorado Division <br />of Wildlife, the State Engineer's Office, and the <br />Attorney General's office. When the General <br />Assembly created the Board and gave it such broad <br />representation it meant for these Board members to <br />work together to accomplish the mission it set forth. <br />With the above in mind, the following are some <br />potential work plan tasks: <br />~ Using the list of specific projects and options laid <br />out by the Gap TRT in SWSI 2, report to other <br />members and staff about the status of <br />implementation efforts and viable alternatives. <br />~ Identify specific ways to foster cooperation on a <br />statewide basis. <br />~ Support the implementation of identified projects <br />and processes. <br />~ Working with water suppliers, make a <br />recommendation about how the staff should <br />collaboratively track local project implementation. <br />~ Promoting and facilitating coordinated operations <br />of existing facilities and infrastructure. <br />~ Promote and support the development of new <br />projects that serve multiple purposes. <br />~ Evaluate alternative methods for determining <br />environmental and recreational needs, and creative <br />ways to implement potential solutions. <br />~ Convey "collective" information about Board <br />activities issues and needs and challenges to their <br />local elected officials to maintain a sense of order <br />and facilitate communication when the need for <br />legislative action arises. <br />6.1.2 CWCB Sections <br />The following discussion outlines each of the CWCB <br />Section's roles and responsibilities. <br />PRELIMINARY DRAFT 6-3 <br />